Crazy Quilty Silly Space Sculpture Garden

i am turning my backyard into a Crazy Quilt Silly Space Sculpture Garden.  It’s good for my sanity, even though my boy might think it shows exactly how crazy i am. i like it. it keeps me thinkin’.  keeps me busy.  i use recycled items like old toys, plastic bottle caps, broken jewelry and skateboards, and other strange found or bought stuff.  you’ll see. if you scroll.  it’s designed to be a never-ending work-in-progress, so it’s meeting its design scheme already. and it’s teaching me a thing or two about weeds. persistent little tyrants.

My backyard has been kid-tested and approved! These photos are courtesy of my niece, Rebecca Vickery, as are the kids in them! (Just added my Woo’s pictures at the end of the ‘Becca batch).

Heron in the garden

Hiding Ibis

Parrot in the garden

tulips & seashells

fish tank

meet Juliet

kid tested and approved

find the plastic knives and medicine bottle terrariums…

pom trees! get it?

that damn squirrel!

cage match pt 1 – the blast

cage match pt 2

those thieving squirrels!

too many monkeys – or – oh, you said “cubit?” I thought you said “cubic”

Who needs Romeo– when you’ve got fairies & flamingos?

here are the woo’s pictures:

1- war is nuts- toy soldiers and pistachio nut shells…2- all my eggs are not in one basket 3- those mushrooms are wind chimes my woo gave me

bridge over troubled waters

too many monkeys- boarding day

fish tank after ian’s input

more on that cage match, climbing the lamp

joey did the lamp

leave your shoes by the side of the path

guess the games that died for this piece

sleepy sheep

the city is protected by the soldiers of stratego

mega-city

After invading suburbia Godzilla heads for the city

this is where our best-cat-ever Oz is buried

healthy food option for the opossum’s who live in the shed

the construction crew is on lunch break

dino zone

plant flats make it stackable and storable for winter. see the broken skateboards?

i used to call this “at the public pool” — after seeing how dirty these ducks get from the weather, it’s now called “dirty fowl-mouthed ducks”…

…or, “the wreck of the exxon valdez”. seriosuly, i had to wash the ducks by hand with a brush to get the weather dirt off them.

a fairy’s-eye-view

there’s a wolverine in there among the other statuary

you can see him better from here, he’s under the glow sticks

here’s more on those flamingoes

in their flamingo pond

beach day… see the green lining at the back edge? those are caps from the “Simply” juice bottles…see the hippo? there are 5 birds in this picture, and empty moisturizer jars for stepping stones